Pun thread

[Lambchops]

Relevant to RPS commenters!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21011778

[pakoito]

Needs staring eyes tag, more alt text and PUNFACE.

[Unaco]

The rampant homophonia on RPS has to stop!

[fiddlesticks]

Not a single mention of Deus Ex in that article. What a shame.

[sabrage]

This thread is riddled with unbelievers.

[Xercies]

that a pun "is to wordplay what dominatrix sex is to foreplay - a stinging whip that elicits groans of guilty pleasure".

This is my most favourite line.

[MayhemMike]

*confused*

[Fumarole]

The goodness of the true pun is in direct ratio to its intolerability

I quite agree.

[Ian]

The problem with a lot of people is that they don't appreciate that a "bad joke" isn't necessarily a bad joke.

I can't remember who he said it was from but I remember Fry saying on QI about how bad jokes actually work as a social device because everybody can join in, laugh/shake their head together and agree that it was a bit shit. I'd say puns fall into that. The right sort of bad joke is almost as good as a good joke.

[Xercies]

I feel its a bit of elitism coming in. Oh the lowest form of comedy, it makes the lower people laugh I am so high and mighty.

I don't care how it does it but usually the RPS pun threads make me laugh and I don't care whether its bad or good it made me more happier which is the main thing I would think.

[Velko]

As a non-native English speaker, I find RPS punnery a good tool for sharpening my language skills. Sometimes I have to read the pun aloud in my mind before I capture the idea, but that's all good exercise.

[MOKKA]

As a non-native English speaker, I find RPS punnery a good tool for sharpening my language skills. Sometimes I have to read the pun aloud in my mind before I capture the idea, but that's all good exercise.

I can second that. I go even further and propose that one does not really speaks/understands a language as long as he/she is not able to make puns.